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Ashburnem

1) A soldier from Star Wars. This type of soldier wore white armor vaguely reminiscent of the human skeleton. The Stormtroopers had many different versions of armor, ranging from forest troopers to desert troopers. The Stormtroopers were commanded by the evil Empire.

It is rumored that all Stormtroopers are clones, remnants of the great Clone Wars.

2) Stormtroopers are considered, within the storyline of the movies and other fan works, to be extremely precise when shooting. This theory is disproven to the audience /many/ times over. The characters never seem to figure it out, though.

1) Random Stormtrooper picks up a part, and holds it up for his commander to see. "*click* Look sir. Droids. *click*"

2) Obi-Wan, pointing at a blasted hull of a transport: "Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise"

A robotic armored suit found in many of the Mobile SuitGundam series. The Zaku is the mass-produced workhorse of the Zeon forces. Three iterations of the Zaku unit have been produced, according to the official anime/mangas, and the most common type is the Zaku II.
The Zaku suits were produced to work against the Earth-dwelling ESDF

It appears as aroughly 300' robot, with a single cycloptic search eye. The design is fairly reminiscent of WWII Germany's soldiers. The typical soldier's Zaku is green, high ranking officers, however, have been known to have blue or light red colorations (see Char Aznable).

The Zaku is known as the Stormtrooper of the Japanese and Otaku culture, that is, it is a highly recognizable figure depicting a massive evil force. That cannot aim its' weapons accurately.